I’m starting to suspect you can overload the HDR.

I’ve had recorded programme playback picture freezing for a second or 2 before carrying on, a couple of occasions now, when I am doing file manipulation on the HDR via my laptop over Wi-Fi.

1. HDR is playing back a recording, whilst also recording two other programmes, all HD content.

2. Log into the HDR using Filezilla, and start to ftp 4 movie files (SD) across to my laptop for editing & viewing on my iphone.

3. When 2 files complete, use filezilla to select & delete all the 6 files on the HDR associated with the 2 movies in one go.

4. So, it is now playing back a recording, recording 2 others, still ftp’ing 2 large movie files, and deleting 6 files, all at once.

5. The deletions seemed to take a while until the Filezilla window “suddenly” refreshed. At the same time, the playback programme that we were watching also jerked a couple of times (I was multitasking on the laptop and watch TV at the same time ), and Mrs savvy definitely noticed it (not good !!).

6. Interestingly, when we came to play back the programs that were also recording at the time, they had similar very brief glitches at around the time that I would have been doing the deletions.

I haven’t noticed this doing ftp’ing & streaming to other devices, whilst recording/playback, only whilst doing all of them them, then also doing simultaneous multiple/large file deletions. Not sure if it appears that the processor is being overloaded, or if it is a disk I/O problem – or if it is just me 😯

Les.

son_t – 1 minute ago  » 

Load testing is pretty easy to test – just having the time and patience to find out how much it can cope with…

One question I must ask is whether you’ve replaced your HDD? If so, what have you replaced it with?

Yes, I just don’t have the time any more, as I used to, to go thru it methodically, adding each new element and recording the results

It’s just something I noticed happening twice, now, to me under the same conditions.

I’m still on the original 320GB HDD, we’re not great archivers, we watch what we record as soon as we can, generally using it to “timeshift” daily viewing so we avoid adverts , with some left over for ad-hoc viewing. HDD is generally about 45 – 55% full at any one time.

BTW, please don’t anyone infer that I am saying the HDR processor or disk is not up to the job, it wasn’t designed for these additional functions 😉

Les.

Are you using the latest Release 3c?

Have you definitely installed Twonky by putting the Twonky Installer on the USB and letting it install, checking that it deleted the file on the USB after rebooting?

If you ftp to the HDR, can you see the Twonky folders?

Hmmm…..

If you can’t login to the twonky screen such as :-

http://youripadress:9000/config or

http://youripadress:9000/webbrowse

You could see if the twonky service is running, by telnetting over to the HDR and issuing a ps command which will show which processes are running, and see if Twonky is or isn’t.

If all that looks OK, then I’m not sure, other than maybe the other twonky server running on your network is somehow causing a conflict, although sounds unlikely.

Edit : You didn’t put the MediaTomb alternative on your usb to install as well did you? If so you could try putting the installer for Twonky only on the USB & trying again.

Telnet is enabled automatically in Windows XP, just use Run | Cmd to get a command box up, and then do telnet foxsatipaddress.

In Win 7 you have to enable it, instructions here

The twonky supplied is a trial version, but on the HDR, the trial never expires